Airport Terminal Planner

HNTB Corporation; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB is seeking a highly motivated aviation planning professional to join our team in Boston, MA, contributing to a large portfolio of airport projects. The role involves data-driven planning, research, and effective communication with clients and stakeholders, mentoring staff, and coordinating with multi-disciplinary teams.

You will develop planning strategies, prepare technical reports, and lead portions of project deliverables across landside, terminal, and airside disciplines.

Qualifications

• Analytical and communication skills with a passion for aviation.
• Experience in landside, terminal, airside, economics, or environmental planning.
• Ability to lead small teams and coordinate with clients and sub-consultants.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree as specified with relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with project team members and other disciplines.
• Develop client meetings and interactions.
• Research planning issues, policies, and concepts and formulate recommendations.
• Develop conceptual planning alternatives for urban and transportation projects.
• Prepare technical plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents.
• Lead presentations and public facilitation.
• Coordinate with clients and sub-consultants to complete tasks.
• Mentor junior staff and assist with proposals and RFP responses.
• Write sections of plans and reports and synthesize contributions.
• Develop planning and analysis using GIS, traffic, or safety software.
• Lead planning processes and technical solutions.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Aviation planning

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

ArcGIS

Job description

What We're Looking For It is an exciting time to join HNTB’s aviation planning practice! We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with excellent analytical and communication skills and a passion for aviation to help deliver our large portfolio of aviation planning projects at the nation’s largest and most exciting airports. The successful candidate will have broad experience in one or more of the following aviation planning disciplines: landside, terminal, airside, economics, or environmental. This position can be located at a variety of HNTB office locations. At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. This opportunity entails being responsible for applying planning strategies utilizing various technologies and tools to gather and analyze data, assess outcomes, and develop reporting and visuals to effectively communicate findings. This position performs tasks for planning projects including research, studies, and documentation, coordinating with multi-discipline team members, from concept development through project completion. This position develops technical solutions and strategies for small-scale planning projects or for portions of larger projects and may serve as a task leader or project manager on a limited basis for select small scale project or task assignee on multiple projects.

What You’ll Do:

• Leads aspects of internal and external coordination with project team members, including other discipline areas involved with the project.
• Develops and maintains client meetings and interactions.
• Conducts or directs research on issues, policies, and concepts pertaining to planning, and formulates recommendations.
• Develops conceptual planning alternatives for urban and transportation planning projects.
• Leads tasks under general direction related to the preparation and production of technical plans, studies, written reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects.
• Responsible for significant portions of presentations and public facilitation.
• Coordinates with clients, sub-consultants, and in-house personnel on a regular basis to complete assigned tasks.
• Assists in directing teams for small or medium sized tasks for projects.
• Mentors and provides direction on the work of less experienced staff.
• Assists in the preparation of scopes of work, fee proposals and responses to RFP’s for projects.
• Writes major sections of and leads production of plans, studies, reports, and environmental documents for transportation and infrastructure projects.
• Also coordinates and synthesizes the contributions of others.
• Research data sources, gathers data, and conducts analysis of data for use in projects.
• Develops planning and analysis strategies using tools such as GIS, traffic, or safety software to manipulate data, assess scenarios, and perform project analysis.
• Leads planning processes and technical solutions that best meet the project needs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field and 6 years related professional experience, or Master's Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Engineering, or related field and 5 yrs of relevant experience.

What You’ll Bring:

• Directs and oversees technical work for a wide variety of airport planning and preliminary design projects.
• Leads capacity analyses for airport facilities.
• Develops concepts and alternative drawings using AutoCAD, Revit, and ArcGIS.
• Prepares technical reports for airport planning studies.
• Interprets and oversees airport simulation models.
• Highly responsive to client requests.
• Prepares stakeholder and public presentations.
• Helps build client relationships.
• Assists with business development activities including proposal preparation and interviews.
• Mentors junior and mid-level staff.

What We Prefer:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Aviation Management, Urban Planning, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or related field and 6 years of experience.
• Extensive airport planning experience at large hub airports.
• Project Management experience with a focus on profitability.
• Strong understanding of the aviation industry.
• Excellent communication skills.

Locations: Arlington, VA (Alexandria), Boston, MA, Charlotte, NC, Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, Las Vegas, NV (Via Austi Parkway), Los Angeles, CA (Figueroa Street), Oakland, CA

The approximate pay range for Massachusetts is $100,048.18 - $156,485.61. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate pay range for Los Angeles Metro Area and Orange County, CA is $95,879.51 - $149,965.37. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate pay range for the California San Francisco Bay Area is $104,216.85 - $163,005.83. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate pay range for Nevada is $87,542.15 - $136,924.92. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate pay range for Illinois is $91,710.82 - $143,445.15. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

The approximate nation wide pay range for this position is $83,373.48 - $163,005.83. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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When you join HNTB, you are joining an employee-owned firm founded on the values of integrity, collaboration, personal accountability, respect for others, and the development of all employees. We are committed to the continual improvement of an inclusive workplace. We encourage our employees to bring their whole and authentic selves to work, provide them a meaningful welcoming environment where they are valued, celebrated and respected. Diversity of thought and unique perspectives drives innovation, engagement and retention, which makes HNTB better and brings value to our clients and our communities.

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